WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1956 Space Trip is Goal Of University Scientists For the past eight years, scientists at the University have been working in a laboratory' in Electrical Engineering on a project that will culminate with the launching of a space satellite next year, and in the future, possibly a trip to the moon. These scientists are members of the lonosphere Research Laboratory, concerned with geophysical research and observations into the ionosphere. According to Sidney A. Bowhill, a member of the research team, the laboratory is part of the University's research program into the atmosphere. The team will assist in the re search and groundwork for t time during the international g, Committee Plans Spring Week HEc Exhibits Special exhibits for high school students attending the Home Eco nomics Spring Weekend are being planned by the Spring Weekend student central committee. The exhibits, a new feature of the annual weekend, are intended primarily to interest high school students in the University by showing them what courses are offered. They will also give a general picture of careers for stu dents majoring in home eco nomics. Each of the 11 schools in the College of Home r -Economics will depict some phase of its curricu lum. One school will be featured each hour, but students from all curriculums will be present at all times to answer questions. Live demonstrations and dramatiza tions are being planned. More than 2000 high school students are expected to attend the weekend activities on April 21 and 22. Committee co-chairmen are Su san Hill, junior in home eco nomics fr o m Old Greenwich, Conn., and Richard Walbridge, senior in hotel administration from Wellsboro. Nominations Open For WRA Officers Women interested in holding offices in the Women's Recrea tion Association next year may sign up on the self-nominating forms in 103 White Hall. Offices open to freshmen are secretary-treasurer and assistant intramural chairman; sophomores, vice president and intramural chairman; juniors, president. A 2.5 All-University average is required. Elections will be held in the women's dormitories the second week in March along with the Women Student Government As sociation's elections. Nikolaidi In Concert Series Elena Nikolaidi, leading contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Association, will present the third Community Con cert at 8:30 tonight in Schwab Auditorium instead of Thurs day night as was erroneously reported in yesterday's Col legian. The Association -of Independent Men is sponsoring the Community Concert ticket sale. Twenty $2 tickets are on sale at lowing intermission will play "Au the HetzeL Union desk. bord d'une source" (Liszt), "Noc- Miss Nikolaidi has sung in re citals in nearly all the major cities of the United States and has appeared as soloist with many leading symphony orchestras. 3 Town Hall Recitals In addition to her performances at the Metropolitan Opera, she has performed in three recitals in Town Hall and last summer sang with the American Chamber Society in Katonah, N.Y. Miss Nikolaidi will open her program with three numbers, "Thanks Be to God" (Handel), "The Mermaid's Song" and "Pas toral Song" (Haydn). Other selections include "I Have Lost My Euridice" (Gluck), "The Nut Tree' and "Spring Nigh t" (Schuman), "Layarni" (Spathy), and "Tsobanakos" (Ka a sso glou). Evans Robert K. Eva: Nikolaidi at th 4 o Play s will assist Miss piano and fol- ily ROG ALEXANDER he basketball sized satellite which will circle the globe some eophysical year which lasts frorri July 1, 1957, to Dec. 31, 1958. The purpose of the satellite is to investigate the nature of the ionosphere, a vast, empty realm which extends from 50 to 150 miles above the earth, and in whose path, the satellite will trav el in its globe circling flight, Bow hill explained. For the past eight years. he continued, the laboratory has been investigating the iono sphere by radio waves. Situated on the site of the old iron mines, five miles west of State College. Bowhill said. is the transmitting station. Here, a 250 thousand watt transmitter, 1000 times stronger than that of the local radio station. sends out a con tinuous signal over an antenna system a mile long. These signals bounce off the layers of the atmosphere and trav el back towards the earth, Bow hill said. The signals are picked up by the receiving towers on the Uni versity farms, and relayed to the laboratory where they are record ed on film strips in the form of graphs, he said. The charts are then translated by the staff, and the findings sent to the Geophysical Research Di rectorate of the Air Force, the department sponsoring the satel lite flight. During the flight of the satel lite, whose launching date is top secret, the research team will observe by radio signals, the re gion of the ionosphere which the satellite will pass through, Bowhill said. . The satellite itself will travel around the earth for several days. and as it looses speed. Bowhill said, it will gradually circle back into the upper atmosphere, and eventually disintegrate. In the past, Bowhill stated, rocket flights to high altitudes have given some information about outer space, but the flights are too short to give sustained ob servations in both time and space. The information the satellite gath ers on its flight, will give the scientist the opportunity of ob i serving conditions to be met, and difficulties to be overcome, if the Iday comes when man actually makes that flight to the moon, he said. Will Sing tame" (Poulene), and "El Puerto" Community Concert Singer secular and sacred music, closing with "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" (Saint Saens). Doors will open for the concert at 8 p.m. THU DAILY COLLEGIAN' STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Student Employment Representatives from the following com panies will interview June and August graduates and undergraduates for summer work. Applicants for interviews may sign up in 112 Old Main within the nest two weeks. This list will he carried only once by The Daily Collegian. Interviews will be held on dates mentioned. Hercule% Powder Co.—Mar. 14 CHEM, CH.E, ME. MNC. Also M.S. candidaten in CHEM, CH.E. S. Morgan Smith Co.--Mar. 14-11.4. E American Tel. & Tel.---Mar. 14, 15. 16 - EE. IE, ME. CI:. CH.E. Also M.S. candi dates in EE, ME. PHYS, CHEM and Ph.D. candidates in Phys. Debate Team to Meet Vermont Squad In Tournament The men's debate team will play host to the University of Vermont debate team at 4 p.m. today in 312 Sparks. The topic for the debate is "Resolved: That the non-agricul tural industries of th e United States should guarantee their workers an annual wage." Robert Neff, sophomore in ag ricultural education from Potts town, and Thomas Hollander, sophomore in arts an d letters from Monessen, will take the neg ative stand against the Vermont affirmative team. Jonathan Plaut, junior in in dustrial engineering from Rock ville Centre, N.Y., and Edward Klevans, junior in electrical en gineering from Roaring Spring, will meet the Vermont negative team at 7:30 p.m. tonight in 316 Sparks. Open forums will follow the debates. Students may attend. This weekend the men's debate team will enter, the West Vir ginia North-South tournament. The affirmative team will be composed of George Haines, jun ior in education from Notting ham, and David Scott, junior in agricultural economics and rural society from Chatham, N.J. Plaut and Klevans will take the negative stand in the tourna ment. Study Includes Journ School The School of Journalism at the University was included in a re cently released study by James H. Herring, assistant professor of journalism at Marshall College. The University was one of forty colleges and universities included in a study of instruction program development and related changes between 1940 and 1951. No specific ratings were released. The purpose of the Herring stu dy was to determine how the in struction programs of the forty schools developed over that time and to discover and measure other changes directly related to the in struction programs. Philosophy Club to Hear Speech by Anderson Professor John M. Anderson. professor of philosophy, will speak to the Philosophy Club to morrow at 7:30 p.m., in 209 Het zel Union. The topic will be "Why Matter Does Not Exist." An open discussion will follow the talk. The meeting is open to the public. Players Advertising Crew The advertising crew of the Penn State Players will meet at 7 tonight in the Schwab Auditor ium loft. Forster to Speak In Lecture Series Dr. Kent Forster, professor of European history, will speak on "Has Penn State Been Worth Some of the Best Years of Our Lives?" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Hetzel Union auditorium. It will be the second of three lectures in "The Last Lec ture Series" sponsored by Mortar Board, senior women's hat society The lecturers may speak on any subject they choose and are to pre sent the lecture as though it were their last. Dr. Forster has been a Univer sity professor since 1941 and is one of three professors who wrote the 'test for international relations 300 and helped organize the course. Organized Seminar He was among the group to or ganize the Penn State Summer Seminar in Europe in 1949. He acted as a resident director in Great Britain in 1949 and 1950. He received his B.A. degree at Washington and Lee University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degree,:. at The University of Pennsylvania. Sally McKnight, president of Mortar Board, will introduce Dr. Forster. Other Series Successful This type of series has been suc cessfully presented by Mortar Board of the University of Color ado, the University of California, and Ohio Weslyan. Dr. Henry A. Finch, associate professor of philosophy, will give the final lecture in the series at 7:30 p.m. March 14 in 112 Buck hout laboratory. Players to Present Children's Matinee Of Thurber Show For the first time in 10 years the Penn State Players will give a Saturday matinee for children. "The Thirteen Clocks," a musi cal dramatization of the famous James Thurber story, will open March 8 at Schwab Auditorium. It will be presented at 8 p.m. March 8,9, and 10. The chil dren's matinee will be presented at 12:15 p.m., March 10. Children under six must be accompanied by adults. Members of the cast include: Robert Kokat, Golux; Batya Pais, Saralinda; Derek Swire, Prince Zorn. Joseph Conaway, Duke; Don ald Barton, Hark; Ernest Swig gett, Dancer-singer; Kathryn Kel leher, Hagga; Walter Vail, Inn- Keeper; David Faust. Captain. Thomas Buckey; Jackadandy; William Warthling, Tale Teller; Gary Zinman, Jackolent; Mark Wallace, Traveler; Sandra Grot sky, Woman; Robert Noce r a, Dancer; Janet Bean and Eliza beth Harned, Dancer. Farm Reports Birth Of Lambs Hits 200 Lambing season is at its peak in the University sheep flock, as evidenced by the birth of approximately 200 lambs up to now, with almost 100 more on the way. The barns which house the new arrivals are located on Shortlidge road opposite the Agricultural Engineering build ing. They are open to the public, nu-birth. These numbers are stamp2d and during lambing season on their barks. merous visitors are expected, ac- 1 . Students Live At Barns cording to Carrot Shaffner, Uni-! Assisting with the work at the versity shepherd. !sheep barns are three animal husbandry students who live at This year's crop is somewhat • , the barns. They are William Wat larger than anticipated because` kins, junior from Bellefontaine, of the high percentage of twins. , i Twinning is an inherited charac- "" e,h-o; Donald McCreight, junior : from West Lebanon; and Thomas teristic, and by careful breeding' the number of twins born in- 1 Mcllwain, junior from Spring ,Church. creases every year. ; During the summer the sheep Many of the new arrivals are Championship Offspring 'graze at the eastern end of the offspring of championship blond' University farm land. They will be sent out to graze sometime lines, since several of the various, during May, depending on the breeds were winn e r s of top awards at the International Live- Feather. _` _________ stock Exposition in recent rears:Dairy Club to Discuss Approximately 400 sheep are . kept in the barns so that thaAivestock Show Plans number in the flock may be! Plans for the Little Inter maintained. More than half of the national Livestock Exposition will lambs will be sold. The remaind- be discussed at a meeting of the er will be used for class demon-; Dairy Science Club at 7 p.m, to strations. morrow in 117 Dairy. Accurate records are kept of t P. Thomas Zeigler, professor the lambs. In order to facilitateof animal husbandry, will speak the recording, the lambs are at the meeting. numbered within 24 hours after. It will be open to the public. Leonides Applications Availably Application blanks arc now available at the lict - tel Union dv:4lc and the dean of women's office for self-nominations for Leonides officers. The deadline for these applica tions is March 5. LeoniCes hp; set March 13 as the day for the election of its officers, in conjunc tion with the primary elections of the Women Student Government Association members. Any independent woman may nominate herself or other indepou dents they feel are qualified for office. Candidates for Leonides presi dent must have a minimum Alt- University average of 2.5, and must be juniors. They must also have served one semester as a member of the Leonides council. The runner-up•for Leonides presi dent will become the treasure,- Women applying for vice presi dent must be freshmen or sopho mores with a minimum All-U,i versity average of 2.5, and a'so must have been a member of council for one sem2stcr. Candidates for recording or cor responding secretaries may be freshmen, sophomores, or juniors and must have an All-University average equal to the minimum av erage required by the school in which they are enrolled. All applicants are asked to sub mit a picture. Applications will he screened by the Leonides execu tive council. Tickets Now Available For Alchemist Production Tickets for "The Alchemist" will be on sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week at the Hetzet Union desk. Remaining tickets will be on sale at the door. "The Alchemist," a Players' pro duction, opened Friday at Center Stage and • will run four more weeks. PAGE FIVE
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